WiFi in iOS 11 keeps turning on

Jenn519 wrote:

Apple please let me decide/control when to enable/disable WiFi and don’t force turning it back on. I need the convenience of the control center but the control of the settings. I am consistently super frustrated and slowed down by this.

You DO have that capability.

Settings > WiFi (turn ON or OFF)

juliepandora wrote:

Apparently it happens on purpose (by design) with the newest iOS. If we disable WiFi and bluetooth from the control center, iOS turns it back on by itself a few seconds after the fact.

No, no, no, that's not how it works. I submit that you would benefit greatly from the iPhone User Guide.

juliepandora wrote:

It's up to me to decide how long I want it off for!

Absolutely! If you foolishly want to turn WiFi and/or Bluetooth off for a long time, go to Settings > WiFi and Settings > Bluetooth.

juliepandora wrote:

I agree the behavior should be up to the user.

It IS up to the user. Apple ADDED a new feature, to disconnect from the current network, but leave Wi-Fi connected. They chose to put this feature on the Control Center, where it would be most useful. But they did not remove the feature to turn off WiFi completely, even though there is almost never a valid reason to do so. And your example, BTW, is not a valid reason; the new feature does exactly what you want, it disconnects from your current (home) network and won't reconnect until you move away from it and come back. So:

• To disconnect from your current network: Swipe up and tap WiFi (2 actions)
• To turn off WiFi, tap Settings, tap WiFi and turn it off (one additional action)
• Alternative 1: say "Hey Siri, turn off WiFi" (no physical actions)
• Alternative 2: hold the HOME button and say "turn off WiFi" (one physical action)

There is practically no difference in the amount of effort for any of these actions, and now you have all of them. The best of all worlds.

R.Gillen wrote:

Agree 100%. Apple needs to change this immediately. We need the ability to fully turn off wifi from the control center.

You are not going to get it. Apple has added an excellent and needed feature, the ability to disconnect from a network WITHOUT having to turn off WiFi, and has not taken anything away. You can still turn off WiFi if you have a need to (although there is rarely if ever a reason to). If tapping Settings/WiFi to turn it off, or saying "hey siri, turn off WiFi" is too much effort, sell your phone and get a different device.

So, you're saying they want WiFi to be toggled off from control center but, not really be turned off...? That doesn't seem like Apple logic. If so, why did it never function like that before??? Even so, it doesn't work from Settings either. Still kicks back on somehow. Seems to be when WiFi routers are detected which, seems to me indicates the antenna was never really off to begin with. In addition, this may also be the case with Bluetooth...?

Edit: Sorry, I saw apple recommended response...SMH It appears to actually be intended. I will follow the Settings toggle switch method & follow more closely to see if functioning properly... Sorry, if annoyed by newbie response. Was in hurry... 🙂

kimyhshj wrote:

We all know it is working as Apple intended. We are simply saying it is uncomfortable for some people, so please let it has a option for us to choose to turn it completely off from the control center. Do we have to shut up because we have to obey to what Apple intended? It is obvious thing to complain about some fuctions that is not comfortable. I repeat just in case you didn’t understand, we are not saying what it does now is an error, we are saying it is simply uncomfortable. Understood?

We can't give you the choice you want. We don't work for Apple. We are ALL users on this forum, so instead of asking us to give you anything, tell Apple your thoughts via this link. Otherwise, if your Wifi/Bluetooth connectivity is working as Apple designed, the discussion is pointless. You can post all day long that you want a different solution here, but you won't get it. Feedback - iPhone - Apple

Well, this is a discussions forum to help people with issues they are having.

You're complaining about a design choice, which is something only Apple can change; we can't help you address an issue that was a conscious change Apple made and that is operating exactly the way it is supposed to.

Turning off Wi-Fi: Say "Hey Siri, turn off Wi-Fi" - what could be quicker? Certainly not swiping up from the bottom of the screen, then tapping a button. Even without Siri, tap Settings, tap Wi-Fi, tap OFF. Is that truly burdensome?

And no, you may have a battery drain problem, but it has nothing to do with Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi uses practically no power unless connected to a network, and when it is, it always uses less than cellular data. In most cases turning off Wi-Fi is redundant, because iOS turns off Wi-Fi when the phone is asleep anyway.

Chrisfrommo1968 wrote:

It’s not that part of the feature that is annoying. It’s that it turns on itself. I have a work WiFi that is awful. God bless the Army, anyway, I actually don’t want to use it at work, and it turns itself on. If I want it in, I will turn it on. You say it’s sinply and easy, if it’s so simply and easy, leave it off by default and stay off, and I’ll turn it on myself.

WiFi does not turn itself on. If you disconnect from a network using the button in the Control Center, it will reconnect to the network at 5am. You never turned it off. If you want to turn WiFi off, go to Settings>WiFi and turn it off. It will not come back on until you turn it back on.

Now you are almost incoherent. If you turn off Wi-Fi it is OFF. Apple does not turn it back on. So you can use the Control Center button to disconnect from the ***** network. It will still connect to the good network. If you turn of off completely, it won't connect to any network until you turn it back on. It will never turn back on by itself.

Regarding what anyone likes or doesn't like, we have the best of both worlds. I can use the control center to disconnect from the one network and leave Wi-Fi on, you can say "Hey siri, turn off Wi-Fi" and disconnect from all networks. Forever, if you want. But you will have to turn it back on when you want it - "Hey Siri, turn on Wi-Fi", because iOS won't.

I'm going to disagree with the Apple Recommended solution here too. Aside from completely toggling wifi on/off via Settings, the best workaround for me is enabling the "Ask to Join Networks" setting. I get the desire to rollover from network to network while on the move, but I think some general wifi and internet infrastructure updates are necessary (which are out of Apple's control) before we can fully realize the benefits of this feature.

Actually the new switch should benefit you, not be an inconvenience. If you use your WiFi connection at home but then say go to a Starbucks which is a known network you've connected to but you are concerned about the state secrets on your iPhone you can pop up (or down, depending on which phone) Control Center and tap the WiFi button. You have now disconnected from North Koreans snooping on you in the shop. But when you get home you will not have to remember to turn WiFi back on. Secure and convenient. The next time the unknown cybersecurity specialists come to your work they will probably suggest using it.

If you have the Xfinity issue there is a LONG thread about this on this site.

It was in 11.2. If you haven't seen it then you haven't used Control Center. It will be a full-screen message on first use and at the top of the screen after that.

What research would indicate people would want this? All those people, like myself, that sent in feedback years ago asking for a means to just disconnect from a WiFi hotspot or Bluetooth device without have to fulling turn off either function.

What is the benefit? If I'm at a WiFi hotspot where they are having troubles (like my coffee shop was having yesterday) then I can just disconnect from their hotspot and go to LTE. But when I get home my WiFi will connect to my trusted home network and I can use Airplay, HomeKit devices, etc. without having to remember to turn WiFi back on.

Amakahi wrote:

make sense to me to go to a feature that takes active connectivity on-off control away from the user and make it passive...Previous versions had auto-connect to trusted networks.

The option to auto-connect to trusted networks is still there. However, it doesn't help if what you want is for WiFi to be on and not connected. Keeping WiFi on makes location services much more accurate. I may want to disconnect from WiFi at work because it's sometimes slow but then I may get in my car and want to use Maps. I can either wait until I get far enough from work to leave the range of the slow network or delete the network from my WiFi settings or, now, I have the option of just disconnecting. The same is true of BT. BT is used for things like AirDrop which don't require pairing, just that it be turned on.

They did not. They created another step to turn it off. Apple claims this change is "handy" and it is not.

From the control center, it was a quick and easy way to toggle wifi, and now there is another extra step to do so. There are alot of people that have not realized this change with wifi turning back on automatically and drains battery.